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us the men in black and white parkies made from "ame" skins and the women in Kamlaykas ornamented with bright tassels of dark reddish dye seal pup fur and with the crests and bill ornaments of the crested auk sewed in rows around the seams - Their deer skin clothing they make in the same style as the people from the siberian coast whence they get their deer skins. The women also [[crossed-out]] of [[/crossed-out]] are tattoed in the same style. Two pleasant looking little girls were seen and with the exception of a single rascally fellow the dozen or so natives were very fair samples of decent eskimos.

Their summer houses are built of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] strips of [[strikethrough]] whale [[/strikethrough]] bone cut from whales jaws and 



upheld by a single jaw - whale ribs being used in places this frame being as follows and the whole covered with walrus hides. 

[[image - sketch of a hut with "door" labeled]]

The jaw bone marked (a) is weighted down with a large sack[[?]] of 85 or 100 lbs. to keep the frame from blowing down. The interior of this house measured about 20 [[crossed-out]] [[illegible]] [[/crossed-out]] ft in diameter and 10 ft high at highest point. Deerskin rooms or "pologs" [[crossed-out]] [[show]] [[/crossed-out]] hung on the sides [[marked?]] the private apartments of each family. These people appeared depressed and far from lively and on man with a sweep of his hand said this village was "all mucky" i.e. all dead. The off hand way with which he said this was amusing though at the same time we could only look with